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Jun 14, 2017  Since the app is only available on iOS, the first step to porting the app for macOS is to create a new target. A target simply is a set of instructions telling Xcode how to build your application. Currently, you only have an iOS target, which contains all the.

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Apple says you can port iOS apps to the Mac next year Apple has begun porting some of its simple apps to test out the porting approach now under development By Paul Krill. Jun 07, 2016  Let’s be clear: a lazy port of an iOS App to OS X is a terrible user experience. You should rethink touch-screen interactions for a keyboard and mouse. But there are significant areas that don.

Concluding its WWDC 2018 keynote, Apple offered a 'sneak peek' at what it called a multi-year project to bring iOS apps to the Mac.

While iOS and macOS share similar underlying frameworks, there are also key differences that have made porting iOS apps to Mac difficult, said Apple's senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi. The company is incorporating previously iOS-only frameworks into macOS, and allowing those apps to tap into things like mouse and trackpad input, resizable windows, scroll bars, and copy-and-paste.

Some apps in this fall's macOS Mojave — namely Home, News, Voice Memos, and Apple Books — are in fact ports of their iOS equivalents.

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Federighi denied speculation that Apple will eventually merge macOS and iOS, bringing up a dramatic 'No' slide when raising the topic.

Rumors of iOS apps coming to the Mac have been around since 2017. Apple could partly be hoping to reinvigorate the Mac App Store, which has languished given the ability of Mac developers to sell apps anywhere they want without giving Apple a percentage of revenues or going through screening.

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